White glasses and long bleached hair, here comes Michel Polnareff again: the Franco-American artist with multiple hits announced Monday his return, at the age of 80, with a new song, a future album and an upcoming tour which will stop at the Vaudoise arena from Lausanne on May 23, 2025. Tickets will go on sale on November 21 from 10 a.m.
“Event: “My behind tour” throughout France in 2025 and the Accor Arena on June 14, and new unreleased album on 02/28/25”, is it written on the Instagram account of the interpreter of “On everyone will go to heaven.
The artist, a fan of playful puns, chose this title as a nod to his famous poster for the concert at the Olympia in 1972 where he showed his buttocks. Buzz, scandal and even trial: the troublemaker of French variety will be sentenced to a heavy fine for indecent assault.
On the tour side, Polnareff will begin with a date in London at the beginning of April, a first for him, before continuing concerts in France and Switzerland. He has already announced the release of a new single entitled “Sexcetera” available from 2 p.m. this November 18.
His new project will be released on February 28, seven years after “Enfin!”, the last original studio album, and three years after “Polnareff chante Polnareff”, composed of covers of his repertoire in piano-voice and certified gold disc with more than 80,000 copies sold.
In the musical landscape since 1966 with “La Poupée qui fait non”, Polnareff left his mark on French song with his style, his voice and his songs hummed by several generations: “Love me, please love me”, “L’Amour avec toi », “Letter to France”, “Goodbye Marylou” and others.
Son of a composer of Russian origin, he is one of the rare French people, with Serge Gainsbourg, to have competed musically with the Anglo-Saxons. He thus had guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones, future Led Zeppelin, work on the recording of the first 45 rpm “La Poupée qui fait non”.
